Biomass

Biomassis a non-renewable enegry source.

• Biomass- is from renewable organic enegry sources from plants and animals but is not renewable
• Biomass contains stored enegry from the sun. Plants absorb the suns enegry from the process photosynthesis
• Biomass is renewable because you can always grow more plants such as trees and the waste from them will always exisit.
• Elamples of Biomass are: certain garbage disposals, manure, animals, wood and crops.

Biomass is used in many ways today.

• Biomass is used to create a very large amount of the worlds enegry.
• Biomass is used to reduce global warming.

What are the advantages you can get from using biomass?

• Biomass is very easy to find. You can find biomass everywhere, its a plant.
• It is easy to convert to a high enegry portable fuel such as gasses or alchol.
• It is a natural waste.
• can be used to prevent global warming.

What are the dissadvantages of using biomass?

• Could contribute a great deal to global warming and particulate pollution if directly burned
• It can be an expansive source
• Sometimes it can hurt the enviorment because you need plants to convert into the biomass and in csome cases people cut down trees to convert to the enegry.

Is biomass renewable or non-renewable?

• Biomass is renewable in the fact that it comes from the earth but is not a renewable source because once the fuel runs out you would have to make more once it runs out and it takes a long time to make.